Eric Zuesse A much-ignored huge news report from Reuters on Friday, February 27th, was headlined “Chinese diplomat tells West to consider Russia’s security concerns over Ukraine.” China’s Ambassador to Belgium (which has the capital of the EU) said that the “nature and root cause” of the Ukrainian conflict is “the West,” and ...

The City of Chicago paid $54.2 million in settlements and verdicts for police misconduct cases last year, including more than $9.5 million in attorneys’ fees, according to an analysis of city law department data by The Chicago Reporter. That’s more than the budget for the offices of the mayor, the ...

As Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is crossing the Atlantic heading to Washington to deliver Tuesday’s controversial speech to Congress on Iran, activists are spending Sunday trying to shut down the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). AIPAC has been called “the most important organization affecting ...

This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News with permission or license. The path to a more equal world is steep, but the signposts are clearly marked. Nick Galasso and Marjorie Wood Extreme economic inequality is corrosive to our societies. It makes poverty reduction harder, hurts our economies, and drives conflict ...

Guess what? Almost all the current wars, uprisings, and other conflicts in the Middle East are connected by a single thread, which is also a threat: these conflicts are part of an increasingly frenzied competition to find, extract, and market fossil fuels whose future consumption is guaranteed to lead to ...

New poll also shows a third of respondents say capitalism is root of hunger and poverty. Andrea Germanos This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News with permission or license. A new German survey has a finding that may strike a particular chord with those in the United States. Over 60 ...